MIDAS Open: UK soil temperature data, v201901

The UK soil temperature data contain daily and hourly values of soil temperatures at depths of 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, and 100 centimetres. The measurements were recorded by observation stations operated by the Met Office across the UK and transmitted within NCM or DLY3208 messages. The data spans from 1900 to 2017.

At many stations temperatures below the surface are measured at various depths. The depths used today are 5, 10, 20, 30 and 100cm, although measurements are not necessarily made at all these depths at a station and exceptionally measurements may be made at other depths. When imperial units were in general use, typically before 1961, the normal depths of measurement were 4, 8, 12, 24 and 48 inches.

Liquid-in-glass soil thermometers at a depth of 20 cm or less are unsheathed and have a bend in the stem between the bulb and the lowest graduation. At greater depths the thermometer is suspended in a steel tube and has its bulb encased in wax.

This dataset is part of the Midas-open dataset collection made available by the Met Office under the UK Open Government Licence, containing only UK mainland land surface observations owned or operated by Met Office. It is a subset of the fuller, restricted Met Office Integrated Data Archive System (MIDAS) Land and Marine Surface Stations dataset, also available through the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - see the related dataset section on this record.

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2019-02-12T14:30:19

Dataset Reference Date (): 2019-02-12T14:30:19

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a7ba08d073eb40a9aab5e312f371d007

Identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a7ba08d073eb40a9aab5e312f371d007

Identifier: doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/a7ba08d073eb40a9aab5e312f371d007

Met Office - author

Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,

0370 900 0100

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Met Office - principal_investigator

Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,

0370 900 0100

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Met Office - point_of_contact

Met Office , FitzRoy Road , Exeter , EX1 3PB ,

0370 900 0100

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned

Update scope: dataset

Keywords

Met Office
MIDAS
UK
meteorology
soil temperatures

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1900-01-02T09:00:00

End date: 2017-12-31T23:59:59

Code: WGS 84

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Data are BADC-CSV formatted. ()

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Data collated by the Met Office and archived in the Met Office's MIDAS database. Data are extracted from a sub-set of available tables and delivered to Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) approximately on a yearly basis.

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File identifier: a7ba08d073eb40a9aab5e312f371d007 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: Met Office MIDAS Open: UK Land Surface Stations Data (1853-current) dbd451271eb04662beade68da43546e1

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2023-11-28T00:49:30

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

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